Segni (in Laitin Signia) is an Italian toun an comune locatit in Lazio. The ceety is situatit on a hilltop in the Lepini Muntains, an owerleuks the valley o the Sacco River.
History
Early history
Accordin tae auncient Roman soorces, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the seivent king o Roum, established a Roman colony at the toun, then kent as Signia.[2] Addeetional colonists wur reportitly sent thare in 495 BC.[3]
The auncient airchitectural remains at the steid date maistly frae the Republican period. Thir include a circuit o fortification waws biggit uisin polygonal masonry. The waws incorporatit a seestem o gates, includin the Porta Saracena which is covered bi a muckle monolithic airchitrave. Atop the auncient acropolis o Segni sits the podium o the temple o Juno Moneta, which nou supports a Medieval kirk o Saunt Peter (tent century).
Later history
On several occasions Segni servit as a place o refuge for papes, an the mid-twalt century Eugene III erectit a palace thare. In the twalt century it came intae possession o the Coonts o Marsi, hereditary enemies o the Orsini. The faimily cried de' Conti producit several popes (Innocent III, Gregory IX an Alexander IV) an mony cardinals. In 1558 Segni wis sackit bi the forces o the Duke o Alba in the war against Pape Paul IV; immense buity wis captured, as the indwallers o the ither touns o the Campagna haed fled thither. Politeecian Giulio Andreotti wis born in Segni in 1919.
